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Matches 701 to 750 of 7,498
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| 701 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Eyres may have begun his photographic career in North Wales, as he shows up in a business directory listing for 1868. By 1893 he was listed as an artist in Victoria, and resided with C.T.W. Piper who operated the Queen's Art Photo Studio. Eyres was also listed as a photographer that year with a separate residence. The following year he was operating the Imperial Studio on Yates St. at the corner of Broad. According to an 1896 summary of the studio's history, it was established in Oct 1892. Eyres was primarily a portrait photographer. The Colonist reported in 1897 that he and E.A. Harris had invented a device for producing vignette photographs. Eyres is buried in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria. A month after his death the Colonist (3 Feb 1910, p. 6) announced that G.H. Larrigan and Wilfred Gibson had purchased his studio. | Eyres, Edmund James (I446)
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| 702 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: F. Jay Haynes, who worked as the Northern Pacific Railroad's official photographer between 1876 and 1905, travelled to Alaska in 1891 in order to promote the railroad company's subsidiary coastal steamship company. A decade earlier Haynes had been hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway to document construction activity and the landscapes and towns through which the railway passed. During his photographic contract, which only extended as far as Qu'Appelle, SK, from Winnipeg, MB, Haynes took at least 92 stereo negatives, 85 of which were listed for sale in his fall 1881 catalogue. | Haynes, Frank Jay (I189)
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| 703 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Faith Fenton, whose real name was Alice Freeman, was a school teacher and journalist who, as a special correspondent of the Toronto Globe, accompanied the Yukon Field Force to Dawson. Settling into Dawson, she married in 1900 William Ogilvie's physician and secretary, Dr. John Brown. They left Dawson in 1905 and moved to Toronto. | Fenton, Faith (I537)
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| 704 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1901 BC directory as operated by J.M. Henton and H.H. Millard. Beginning with the 1902 BC directory and until the 1905 one, Henton was the sole proprietor. In the 1906 Vancouver directory he was operating in partnership with W. Pumfrey. Henton was the sole proprietor again in the 1907 Vancouver directory. The company was last listed in the 1909 Vancouver directory. | Vancouver Photo-Engraving Company (I1476)
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| 705 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1912 business directory at the former address of the photographers Brown, Seligman and Brown, there was no proprietor associated with the business that year. It was operated by Paul Seligman (1913-1914); H. Charlton and H. Rathbun (1915-1920); and C.B. Wand (1921-1922). It was last listed in the 1922 business directory. | Western Studio [Vancouver] (I1664)
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| 706 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1914 Victoria business directories, he worked as a "commercial" photographer. In 1919 he was first listed as a photographer with the Victoria Book and Stationery Company who also published postcards. | Stenton, Harry Royal (I1857)
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| 707 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1920 Vancouver business directory, he later operated the Western Studio and also operated as Wand's Photo Studio. He also travelled to China and photographed there in the mid-1920s. In 1946 he bought two plots of real property in the city of Vancouver through a tax sale under the name Cecil Bow Wand. His death registration record indicates he last worked as a photographer on 24 December 1957 and had spent 35 years in the occupation. | Wand, Cecil Bow (I1865)
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| 708 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1928 business directory, the studio was initially operated by J.W. Candlish and C.G. Mole. In the 1931 business directory the studio's address was vacant and Candlish and Mole had resumed their photographic partnership under that name. H.H. Harper was operating the studio by 1941 and until 1943-1944 when it was taken over by G.H. Corrin. | Fraser Studio (I1248)
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| 709 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1928 business directory, this retail outlet sold Kodak products and offered photo finishing services. It was succeeded at the same address by Eastman Photographic Materials Ltd. | Eastman Kodak Stores Ltd. (I996)
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| 710 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1934 business directory, this firm was owned and operated by Lumb Stocks in Penticton until he retired in Jul 1947 and moved to White Rock. J.P. Stocks, his son, partnered with his father in 1947 and took over the business following his father's retirement that year. | Stocks' Photo and Art Store (I1864)
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| 711 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1937 business directory at the same address as the former Eastman Kodak Stores Ltd., this firm carried on at that address past 1950. | Eastman Photographic Materials Ltd. (I2073)
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| 712 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1946 business directory, he was the photographer, vice-president and manager of Bridgman's Studio Limited. In the 1945 directory he was employed as a fitter at a drilling company. | Watson, Leonard A. (I1871)
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| 713 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1947 business directory and operated by Mrs. Margaret Sunderwood. | Sunderwood Photo Studio (I1976)
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| 714 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1947 business directory under Prince George and owned by W.D. (Wally) West. The studio's web site indicates it was established in 1946 and continues to operate in 2021 (URL accessed 21 Mar 2021: https://www.wdwest.ca/). According to the MemoryBC fonds description for the Wally West fonds:
A photograph of his studio portrait camera is found in an online exhibit of "100+ Prince George Icons"; URL (accessed 21 Mar 2021): https://www.theexplorationplace.com/100/Wally-West-s-Camera | Wally West Studios (I1910)
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| 715 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in the 1948 directory as a partnership between P.W. Joncas and H.W. Gollmer. | Joncas Studio (I1284)
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| 716 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed in Vernon in the 1940 business directory and operated by G.A. Meeres. According to online descriptions of archival records, his studio remained in business until 1968. | Meeres Photographic and Art Studio (I1825)
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| 717 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First listed under the name Wrathall's in the 1929 business directory, this firm was operated that year by John R. Wrathall, rather than his father W.W. Wrathall, who worked as a Canadian government telegraph operator. | Wrathall's Photo Finishing (I1940)
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| 718 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First noted in Fernie as a registered voter in 1908, he moved to Victoria the following year and worked there as a photographer into the 1930s. In Jan 1916 he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served in France during World War One; he was discharged in Apr 1919. He was a member in 1921 of the Victoria Professional Photographers Association. He was last listed in the 1935 business directory as a photographer. His death registration record noted he had last worked as a photographer for the BC Provincial Police. | Simmonds, William De Lasaux (I2045)
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| 719 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: First noted in the Vancouver street directories of 1910 and 1911, this was owned by M.E. Charleston. E.D. Charleston may also have operated the studio in competition with his father M.E. Charleston's Elite Studio operation; M.E. Charleston took over the operation. | Charleston and Company (I2141)
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| 720 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Foiled, apparently, in an attempt to erect a studio on the roof of a building on Cordova St., E.H. and brothers George and Gilbert put their studio in the Chamberlain building and called themselves the Stanley Brothers. All three moved to Nelson in 1892-1893 and continued to practice photography until about 1895. E.H. then took up mining. | Stanley, Edward Hall (I60)
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| 721 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Following a year each as a photo finisher and a photographer, he was a partner in Broderick and Daniel and then, like his former partner, operated independently. | Broderick, Christopher James (I1320)
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| 722 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Following Harold Mavius' death in Feb 1911, she acquired his Royal Studio and continued to operate it under that name. She subsequently operated the Home Portrait Studio. Her first newspaper ad notes that she "was connected for many years with Messrs. Lafayette, of New Bond street, London...." A Mrs. Agnes Wiggin is listed in 1911 Canada census as living as a lodger in New Westminster. No occupation is given. Her age at her last birthday was 30 and her birth date is given as Jul 1880. She immigrated to Canada from England in 1907. | Wiggin, Mrs. Agnes (I846)
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| 723 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Following her husband John King Gilbert's death in 1876, she leased his studio to W.H. Davis who took possession in early Jun 1877. On 6 Mar 1879, G.O. Lock who was operating the Bastion Street Gallery, placed a newspaper ad in which he stated that he had as of that date sold to Mrs. Mary Jane Gilbert all the photographic equipment of his studio, but that he would remain at the studio as its photographer. This was an unusual and atypical situation for the time. | Gilbert, Mrs. Mary Jane (I2370)
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| 724 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Following his partnership with his brother R.J. Hughes as the Hughes Brothers, he managed the Hughes Studio. When he married in 1932, his bride Hildred Gardner, who worked at Hughes Studio, also gave her occupation as photographer. Following his retirement in 1945, they moved to Nakusp, BC. His death registration record states he had worked as a photographer for 21 years or since around 1924. | Hughes, Leslie Cameron (I1574)
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| 725 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Following his World War Two military service he returned to Grand Forks where he ran a bicycle shop which also provided photo finishing services. | Mudie, Gordon Ramsay (I2082)
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| 726 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Following M.F. Kelly's advertising in Jan 1898 for someone to learn photography, Bert Moore was reported in Mar 1898 to be learning the trade. | Moore, Bert (I2374)
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| 727 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Following military service during World War Two, he was the branch manager of the Meyers Studios in Victoria beginning in 1946. According to his death registration record he had last worked as a photographer for the Canadian federal government. | Banyard, Roland (I2226)
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| 728 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Following the retirement in 1877 of his brother Edward from the Kilburn Brothers Stereoscopic Company, B.W. Kilburn reorganized the firm as B.W. Kilburn and Company. | B.W. Kilburn and Company (I2341)
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| 729 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Following their marriage in June 1906, the couple appear to have moved to Brandon, MB, as they were enumerated in the 1906 census on Jul 6. In Victoria he operated under the name Young's Studio or Young's Photographic Studio (1918). Between 1931 and 1940 he operated under the name Graphic Arts. Between 1943 and 1949 he worked under the name Camera Exchange, then in 1950 renamed his business the Camera Shop. | Young, William Bruce (I672)
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| 730 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Formerly known as C.H. Smith and Company, C.H. Smith rebranded his business around 1931. | Smith's Picture Shop (I2024)
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| 731 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Founded and owned by Mrs. Mary Ethelyn Belt-Hamlin who was also listed as manager of Bridgman's Ltd. that year. Aunt Molly may be the name for a retail line of photographic novelties for children. | The Child's House (I2148)
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| 732 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Founded by Art Jones and Ray Munro, former Vancouver Sun photojournalists, the work of this company is preserved by the Vancouver Public Library which also digitized about 30% of the 11,000 photographs donated in 1994. For further details about the company's operation, see the library's Web sites The Artray Photograph Collection: Vignettes of Postwar Vancouver or This Vancouver: Artray Collection. | Artray Limited (I611)
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| 733 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Founded by B.L. Singley and based in Meadville, PA, the firm became the dominant player in the stereograph market by the early 1900s. The company employed numerous photographers over its years in business. Keystone had several branch offices, including one in Toronto, ON. In Aug 1899 the photographer J.J. Palmer was sent to Canada, but it is not known if he travelled as far as BC. Other publishers whose inventory they acquired and which include BC content are the H.C. White Company, Underwood and Underwood and the American Stereoscopic Company. By the early 20th century the firm had incorporated motion pictures for educational purposes into its photographic activities. While stereographs by this firm are found in a number of academic, archival and library collections around the world, the negatives and business records of the company are preserved by the California Museum of Photography (University of California Riverside) as the Keystone-Mast Collection. | Keystone View Company (I2336)
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| 734 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Founded by Charles I. Meyers in Winnipeg, MB, around 1919, the chain had grown to encompass almost all of Canada by 1939 when three of the four branch studios in BC opened. | Meyers' Studios (I1054)
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| 735 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Founded in 1882 by the brothers Elmer and Bert Underwood in Ottawa, KS, over time they photographed, manufactured, distributed and acquired postcards and stereographs. Other major stereo publishers whose inventory they acquired were the H.C. White Company and the American Stereoscopic Company. Underwood and Underwood acquired Strohmeyer and Wyman in 1901. By 1923 Underwood and Underwood had sold its stereo inventory to the Keystone View Company. Stereographs by this firm are found in a number of academic, archival and library collections around the world. | Underwood and Underwood (I656)
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| 736 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Four photographs by this person were published in the 2 Aug 1890 issue of Dominion Illustrated; three are BC scenes, the fourth shows Indian berry pickers, Lake Superior. | Fox, W.W. (I247)
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| 737 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Frank Gowen Company was a photography firm in Vancouver operated by Frank Gowen from 1919 to 1920. It specialized in commercial and scenic photography. Between 1914 and 1919 Frank Gowen photographed under his own name. Frank Gowen Company was superseded by the Gowen Sutton Company Ltd. in 1920. | Frank Gowen Company Ltd. (I1307)
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| 738 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Frederick Steele, then based in Winnipeg, operated out of a tent studio in Nelson in Jul 1896. The Fernie branch studio was owned by Frederick Steele of Calgary who had been employed by Hall and Lowe in Winnipeg between Jun 1886 and Mar 1887. It is not known who kept the Fernie branch open. Frederick Steele was one of the most important photographers operating in the Prairie provinces in the 1890s. | Steele, Frederick (I2315)
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| 739 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: From 1936 to 1938 he managed the Elite Studio (Victoria: III) and from 1939 to 1950 the Campbell Studio; beginning in 1941 he co-managed the latter with J.L.W. Price. | Lee, Archibald Louis (I1657)
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| 740 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: From 1939 to 1941 he operated Movie Snaps in association with E.R. Jones. | Craig, Roy Samuel (I989)
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| 741 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: From the description of an album of photographs at UBC Okanagan Library in the Doug and Joyce Cox Research Collection:
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| 742 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: G.E. Whiten operated under this name in Vernon between 1918 and 1921. | Whiten's Photo Studio (I1921)
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| 743 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: G.H.E. Hudson lent his name to this business whose other proprietors were H.A. Willis (Kelowna) and Lumb Stocks (Penticton). Willis was Hudson's brother-in-law. | Hudson, Stocks and Company (I1419)
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| 744 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Gentile arrived in Victoria from San Francisco in Sep 1862 and opened a "fancy goods" store. The following August he was advertising to buy "photographic fixings" and by Oct 1863 had opened a portrait studio in conjunction with his store. He then sold the store in Feb 1864 and attempted to also sell the photo gallery. Following the winter of 1864-1865, part of which he spent in New Westminster, he made a second attempt to sell his photo gallery in Mar 1865. Unsuccessful in his intention to dispose of the photo business, he carried on and began a series of landscape views throughout parts of the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. One of his most important photographic ventures was in Aug and Sep 1865 when he accompanied Governor Frederick Seymour's party to the Cariboo country. Gentile also photographed the Alberni area in 1864, the Leech River and Sooke district in 1864 during the height of the gold rush and parts of Washington Territory in the late winter of 1865-1866 which he toured with Governor William Pickering. When he departed BC in Sep 1866 he left Noah Shakespeare in charge of the gallery that he had only opened in May of that year. By Feb 1867 his gallery was being operated by W.M. Ashman. Gentile never returned and was later reported to be in San Francisco in 1867, in the U.S. Southwest in 1868 and was in Chicago by the late 1870s. | Gentile, Carlo (I218)
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| 745 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Gushul emigrated in 1906. Operating under his own name and as Gushul Studio, he left an important documentary record of labour conditions in the coal mines of Alberta and BC. After his death his wife Lena continued to operate the studio. | Gushul, Thomas (I1178)
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| 746 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: H.E. Bullen operated under this name. | Bullen Photo Company (I1956)
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| 747 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: H.W. Lovell was an employee of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Edmonton who visited Vancouver in the summer of 1923 with other railway employees. He later moved to Kamloops and last worked as a railway car repairman for the CNR. | Lovell, Hubert William (I1209)
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| 748 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Half-tone reproductions marked "Baker Photo" were published in The Mining Record. | Baker (I351)
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| 749 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Hamacher worked in Washington and Oregon possibly as early as the 1870s (Mautz, 1997). By the summer of 1898, according to Becker, he was left in charge of Hegg's "studio" at Lake Bennett while Hegg, P.E. Larss and others carried on to Dawson. Hamacher was assisted by Florence Hartshorn. A portrait with Whitehorse Band members identifies him as front row, third from left, wearing a straw hat (Yukon Archives photo no. 4080). | Hamacher, Ephraim Johnson (I178)
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| 750 | BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Harbeck's importance to British Columbia cinema emerged from three visits in 1907, 1909 and 1911. Only the 1907 footage survived, found in Australia in 1994 and eventually transferred to the Library and Archives Canada. According to Bottomore's thorough biography, before taking up filmmaking Harbeck had worked as "a bookkeeper, journalist [in Anaconda, Colorado], inventor, travelling book agent, baker, and owner of a steam laundry." (p. 27). Although it is unknown where and when he learned how to use a motion picture camera, the earliest record of his work as a cinematographer was in 1906 when he filmed the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake, possibly on assignment from the Miles Brothers (Bottomore, p. 27). He also filmed in Yellowstone National Park in 1906 for the Selig Polyscope Company, a Chicago company who had a cameraman named H.H. Buckwalter working out of Denver, Colorado, and who had shot a film in 1904 in the Cripple Creek mining district where Harbeck worked. Harbeck's first visit to BC occurred in May 1907: on 4 May he visited Victoria to film the city from a streetcar loaned by the B.C. Electric Railway Company. A member of the local tourist association also assisted his work by taking him to scenic locations in Victoria not served by the streetcar line. On 5 May 1907, after his day in Victoria where he shot 600 feet of film, he took the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway to Nanaimo, and then by boat to Vancouver, where he planned to take the Canadian Pacific Railway as far as Lytton, compiling a further thousand feet of film. He spent two days (6 and 7 May) filming Vancouver from another B.C. Electric Railway streetcar. The article noted that he would also drive through Stanley Park in an automobile. The Province article hilariously described the effect of his filming on those who encountered the streetcar as "kinetoscopitis". Both the Colonist and Vancouver World articles noted that Harbeck was working on behalf of the Hales Tourist Association of Portland, Oregon. Hale's Tours, also known as Scenes of the World, was an early form of cinematic amusement in which customers experienced a simulated railway car ride, with the film projected in front of them. The 1907 Vancouver film shows the outside of the Vancouver outlet at 131 Cordova St., also known as the Edison Grand Theatre, which was operated by James D. Williams (Bottomore, p. 30). In two articles on Hale's Tours and Vancouver theatres, the Moving Picture World noted that Williams was "now a leading Australian vaudeville and moving picture magnate", which could explain how the Harbeck film of Vancouver and Victoria ended up in Australia. Harbeck's fall 1909 visit to BC saw him filming more scenes along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the results of which, combined with his 1907 footage, resulted in a 4,000 foot film that was exhibited at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle (Bottomore, p. 33). Some of this footage depicting aspects of the C.P.R.'s operations between Victoria and Calgary was also shown in Revelstoke in early Nov 1909. During his 1909 trip, Harbeck also had himself and his camera photographed in front of Takakkaw Falls, Yoho Valley, on 1 Oct (BVIPA photo no. HP017034). Harbeck's 1911 trip to BC was a coastal voyage on one of the Grand Trunk Pacific Coastal Steamships. This trip was likely part of his journey to Alaska in Jul. Harbeck's last working trip resulted in his death by drowning when the Titanic sank. Details of this voyage and some of the mysteries surrounding his presence are recounted in the Web site article about him on Encyclopedia Titanica. Harbeck's body was recovered, returned to his mother (Mrs. Catherine Harbeck), who administered his estate, and he was buried in his birthplace. A photograph of his gravestone appears on the Encyclopedia Titanica Web site. Harbeck married Catherine (Katie) L. Stetter in the 1880s and they had two sons, John S. and Stanley. John S. Harbeck, named after his grandfather, assisted his mother in gathering information from the Nova Scotia Deputy Provincial Secretary's office on the disposition of his father's personal effects, and the identity of the mysterious Mrs. Brownie Harbeck of Seattle, WA, who was also interested in Harbeck's effects and identified the owner of a purse Harbeck was carrying when he died. | Harbeck, William H. (I866)
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